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<span class=large>MALACHI</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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The Lord’s messenger shall prepare the way for the Second Coming—Christ shall sit in judgment—Israel commanded to pay tithes and offerings—They keep a book of remembrance.
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Behold,</span> I will <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 24: 1 (1-18).">send</a> my <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/1b" mark="b" type="C" title="Matt. 11: 10; Mark 1: 2; 1 Ne. 11: 27; D&C 35: 4; D&C 45: 9; JS-H 1: 36; TG Last Days; TG Millennium, Preparing a People for; TG Restoration of the Gospel.">messenger</a>, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">come</a> to his <sup>d</sup><a href="mal/3/1d" mark="d" type="C" title="D&C 36: 8; D&C 42: 36; TG Temple.">temple</a>, even the <sup>e</sup><a href="mal/3/1e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Messenger of the Covenant.">messenger</a> of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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But who may <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Joel 2: 11; D&C 35: 21; D&C 38: 8; D&C 128: 24.">abide</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Day of the Lord.">day</a> of his <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Second Coming.">coming</a>?  and who shall <sup>d</sup><a href="mal/3/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 27: 15 (15-18); D&C 87: 8 (1-8).">stand</a> when he appeareth?  for he <i>is</i> like a <sup>e</sup><a href="mal/3/2e" mark="e" type="C" title="Jer. 9: 7; 1 Cor. 3: 13 (13-15); TG Suffering.">refiner</a>’s <sup>f</sup><a href="mal/3/2f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG Earth, Cleansing of; TG World, End of.">fire</a>, and like fullers’ <sup>g</sup><a href="mal/3/2g" mark="g" type="A" title="Isa. 4: 4 (3-4).">soap</a>:
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And he shall sit <i>as</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 17: 3.">refiner</a> and purifier of silver: and he shall <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/3b" mark="b" type="C" title="Isa. 1: 25; TG Purification.">purify</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Chr. 6: 1 (1-3); D&C 84: 34 (31-43).">sons</a> of <sup>d</sup><a href="mal/3/3d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Aaronic.">Levi</a>, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> an <sup>e</sup><a href="mal/3/3e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Sacrifice.">offering</a> in righteousness.
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Then shall the offering of <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 109: 64 (64-67).">Judah</a> and Jerusalem be <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 56: 7; Isa. 60: 7; Ezek. 20: 40.">pleasant</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
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And I will come near to you to <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Judgment.">judgment</a>; and I will be a swift witness against the <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sorcery.">sorcerers</a>, and against the <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Adultery; TG Sexual Immorality.">adulterers</a>, and against <sup>d</sup><a href="mal/3/5d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 121: 18.">false</a> swearers, and against those that <sup>e</sup><a href="mal/3/5e" mark="e" type="A" title="Eph. 6: 9; Col. 4: 1.">oppress</a> the hireling in <i>his</i> <sup>f</sup><a href="mal/3/5f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG Wages.">wages</a>, the <sup>g</sup><a href="mal/3/5g" mark="g" type="A" title="D&C 83: 6.">widow</a>, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the <sup>h</sup><a href="mal/3/5h" mark="h" type="B" title="TG Strangers.">stranger</a> <i>from his right,</i> and fear not me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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For I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Eternal Nature of; TG God, Perfection of.">change</a> not; therefore ye sons of <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 109: 67 (65-67).">Jacob</a> are not <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Amos 9: 9; D&C 5: 19.">consumed</a>.
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&#182; Even from the days of your <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 7: 51.">fathers</a> ye are gone away from mine <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Ordinances.">ordinances</a>, and have not kept <i>them.</i>  <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Repentance.">Return</a> unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.  But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ingratitude.">Will</a> a man <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/8b" mark="b" type="C" title="1 Chr. 29: 14; TG Stealing.">rob</a> God?  Yet ye have robbed me.  But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?  In <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/8c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Tithing.">tithes</a> and offerings.
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Ye <i>are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">cursed</a> with a curse: for ye have robbed me, <i>even</i> this whole nation.
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Bring ye all the <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="Alma 13: 15; D&C 64: 23; TG Family, Managing Finances in.">tithes</a> into the storehouse, that there may be <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Food; TG Meat; TG Welfare.">meat</a> in mine house, and <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Test, Try, Prove.">prove</a> me now herewith, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, if I will not <sup>d</sup><a href="mal/3/10d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Generosity.">open</a> you the <sup>e</sup><a href="mal/3/10e" mark="e" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 7: 2.">windows</a> of heaven, and pour you out a <sup>f</sup><a href="mal/3/10f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG Blessing; TG Israel, Blessings of.">blessing</a>, that <i>there shall</i> not <i>be room</i> enough <i>to receive it.</i>
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Power of.">rebuke</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 85: 3; D&C 97: 26.">devourer</a> for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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&#182; Your words have been <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR strong.">stout</a> against me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.  Yet ye say, What have we spoken <i>so much</i> against thee?
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Ye have said, It <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 9: 22; Isa. 58: 3; Zeph. 1: 12 (12-13); Mal. 2: 17; 3 Ne. 24: 14 (14-18).">vain</a> to serve God: and what <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 8: 14.">profit</a> <i>is it</i> that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts?
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And now we call the <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 64: 24.">proud</a> happy; yea, they that work <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Worldliness.">wickedness</a> are set up; yea, <i>they that</i> tempt God are even delivered.
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&#182; Then they that feared the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake often one to another: and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hearkened, and heard <i>it,</i> and a <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Dan. 7: 10.">book</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Book of Remembrance.">remembrance</a> was written before him for them that feared the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and that thought upon his name.
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And they shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 101: 3.">mine</a>, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, in that day when I make up my <sup>b</sup><a href="mal/3/17b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR royal treasure; Isa. 62: 3; Zech. 9: 16; D&C 60: 4.">jewels</a>; and I will <sup>c</sup><a href="mal/3/17c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 103: 13; D&C 85: 3.">spare</a> them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
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Then shall ye return, and <sup>a</sup><a href="mal/3/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 101: 95.">discern</a> between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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